Patent GB-253166-A (GB)
Abstract: 253,166. Marley, F. Feb. 10, 1925. Tickets, issuing; registering value of; printing arrangements; ticket punches. - In a ticket printing and punching apparatus, the fare printing wheel is advanced one unit at a time by depressing a lever which also actuates the ticket value totalizer. A reverse movement of the lever brings a half-unit printing wheel into position for printing. Full-stroke and interlocking devices, and inking mechanism are provided. The ticket, Fig. 12, is printed with a date indication 80, a stage indication 81, consecutive number 82, and the fare paid 83, and is punched by two punches in selected positions to indicate the direction of the journey and the class of the ticket. The date marks 7, Fig. 4, and the stage number wheels 9 are adjusted from the outside of the machine. The fare wheels 12 are advanced from zero one unit at a time when a lever 13, Fig. 3, is rocked clockwise, and a halfpennies wheel 14 is set by turning the lever in the opposite direction. A lug 15 on the lever engages, in one direction, a shoulder 16, Fig. 6, on a plate 17 which' has a pin 18 adapted to engage a lever 20, Fig. 5. This lever engages a lever 21 which actuates the setting pawl of the printing wheels 12. On the lever 13 being turned in the opposite direction, the lug 15 engages a shoulder 27 on a plate 28 and sets the halfpenny printing wheel through levers 30, 31. A full-stroke device 24, 25 is provided. The ticket-value totalizer 38 is actuated by a sliding plate 36 a slot in which engages the lever 37 of the counter. Counter-clockwise movement of the lever 13 advances the counter one unit, and clockwise movement of the lever advances it half a unit. Printing is effected by a sliding platen 48, which is actuated by a lever 43 through a shaft 44, a crank 45, and linkage 46, 47. The full-stroke device for the lever 43 comprises a sliding plate 50, Fig. 10, having jaws 49 engaged by the crank 45. A link 51 pivoted to the plate 50 at one end is attached at the other end to a crank pin 52 on a toothed wheel 53 engaged by a pawl 54, and an arm 55 is pressed against the link by a spring 56. The printing lever 43 is locked during the setting of the fare wheels by a spring pressed detent 68 actuated by the lever 13. The consecutive number wheels 60 are advanced by the engagement of the crank 45 with a lever 57, and the fare wheels are zeroized on the return of the lever 43 by a lug 65 on the slide 50 engaging a lever 66. An inking pad 71 which transfers ink from the pad 76 to the type is carried by a slide 72 which is reciprocated bv a lever 73 movable with the arm 20. The ticket may have one or more rows of spaces thereon in which holes are punched, two being shown in Fig. 12. The required row is selected by a stop plate 75, Fig. 11, which is adjusted by means of a thumb-piece 88 to bring either a stop 85 or slot 86 opposite the ticket on insertion thereof. For punching the ticket, a pair of plates 61, Figs. 4 and 13, slidably mounted in the platen are carried down thereby bringing lugs 65 thereon against the corresponding punches 63. The plate 61 has two end lugs, one or other of which operates alternatively on an end punch of the series, setting being effected by an external lever - 74, Fig. 4. The plate 62 is set by means of a thumb-piece 64 against a lettered scale 87 to bring the lug 65 over the punch 63 appropriate to the class of service for which the ticket is issued. On the outside of the casing a box 78 is fitted in which the tickets are spring held against the outer wall, the retaining lips 78 being ust short of this wall, which it cut away to allow withdrawal of a ticket. The lips 79 may be formed on a drawer carrying the tickets.